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AN INSECURE RAILING.
Women and Children Drowned at a
Christening in New Orleans.

Women and Children Drowned at a
Christening in New Orleans.
Sunday morning a number Of colored peo-
pie belonging to the congregation of Mount
Zion Baptist Church assembled on the wharf
at the head Of Lizardi street, in New Orleans,
to be baptized by immersion, according to thn
rites of their church. A large number OF
persons followed the baptismal party
to the wharf for the purpose of witnessing the
ceremony. They leaned on the wharf rail-
ing, which gave way under the great strain
brought against it by the pressure of the
crowd, and about fifty persons were percipi-
tated into the river. The following persons
are known to be drowned.
Harriet Cook, white, aged 311lyears Amelia
Williams, ,colored, aged 8; Rosa Edmonds, col
ored, aged Z; Rosa Lawrence, colored, aged 6;
E. Corneliuss 7-year-old child; Felece Rich
ards baby; Rene Royals 5-year-old child;
q colored woman name unknown); white
woman name unknown); a white girl, who
held baby in her arms. She finally let the
child 20 and sank. The baby was saved.
Rosalie Williams, colored girl, also had q
baby in her arms. She was drowned and the
child was saved.
There were q number of slliffs in the river
in front of the wharf railing. Many of the oc-
cupants of these small boats were injured by
people and broken ratings falling upon them.
Many of the skiffs were upset and some Of the
occupants were drowned A great crowd
fingered about the scene Of the accident in the
afternoon, many of them in search Of relatives
9nd friends
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

, SECRETARY LAMAR and wife will spend q,
month in the White Mountains this summer.
GENERAL SHERIDAN will be present at the;
unveiling Of the Soldiers Monument at New
Haven, Conn.,, June II. 5.;.s ;.
QUEEN KAPIoLANI, of the Sandwich
Islands; has face that indicates benevolences
and good nature. Her features do not belle;
her character. >12. -
GENERAL SHERMAN smokes light domes
tic cigar, limiting himself to three q day:
General Sheridan puffs imported, three for
half dollar. :. a.
JUDGE MCCONNELL, the new Chief Justics-
Of Montana, is an aggressive tempsrance.
man. He closed up every saloon in his Judicial
circuit in Tennessee. ,...s +. -.. gt,s !. 8
Pope LEO received among bis Easter gifts.
an egg carved from block Of the finest ivory.
lined with quilted satin, and inclosing g ruby
and several diamonds. The gems were worth
$4,000. g, e
Europe to friend that he Is nearly as strong
as ever, and will be home early IN June to go
into harness for the new bank IN New York,
of which he will be President. .fs 5Ia,
THE Sultan Of Turkey has just had the
members of his harem vaecinated There
were 13O in all. The physicians were not per-
mitted to see the women, who poked their
arms through an opening in screen 4
W. E. DARWIN, son of the author Of .0rgin
of Species" who is travelling in America, de-
clines to be interviewed. He has brown hair
and wears long side-whiskers, with shayen.
chin and upper lip. His height and size areg
rather below the average, and his appearance
Is that Of country vicar. y, s
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN says that when he
stopped eating meat, thirteen years ago, and
began living on fruit and grain he weighed
210 pounds He now weighs $50, and as heiss
six feet in height he thinks he has the corr
rect proportion. He has not been Ill an hour.
since he began fasting. ;,
LADY Cook, formerly Tennie c. Claain, Of
New York, has almost the face Of a religious.
recluse, without the slightest expression OF e
woman Of the world. Her eyes are a cold,
steely blue and she looks to be at least forty
five years Of age. Her husband is linen
draper, lmighted while in some municipal
office. .... b.. ~
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A REMARKABLE TRIAL.
A Man Convicted of Numbering Hia
Wife Fourteen Years Ago.

A Man Convicted of Numbering His
Wife Fourteen Years Ago.
The case of Jean P. Soquet, Of Green Bay,
Wis, charged with the murder of his wife
fourteen years ago, has come to an end, the
Jury returning verdict of guilty of murder
in the first degree. The case has been one of
peculiar interest ,bot.l on account of the many
wears intervening between the commission OF
the crime and the trial, and other surround
ing circumstances. The trial occupied
two weeks. Soquet was charged with the
murder of his second wife in June, 1878.
His third wife, whom he married soon
afterward, has also been missing since
January ], and is believed to have been muir
dered by Soquet to prevent her being a wit
ness against him in this case. Mrs Soquet
No. was formerly Mrs. Aug. Wainsart. MIR.
Wainsart died about the same time Of the
death of Mrs. Soquet No, =, and, as was
proved, from poison. Mrs. So1uet No. 3was ar
rested, but released 1t was shown in the
testimony of the present trial that Soquet
kept the neighborhood in which he lived ter
rorized for twenty-five years. While it was
freely talked among the farmers that he had
murdered his two former wives, no one
whisper q word outside for fear of Soquet:.
The spell was broken by the disappearance OF
Mrs Soquet No. 8. The mass OF testimony
secured since was astonishing. The Jury
took only three ballots before they agreed
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A MINE DISASTER.
Eighty-Eight Whites and About 100
Cinnamon Killed.


An explosion followed by q fire has caused
narrowing disaster in a coal mine at the
eastern end of Vancouver's Island. When
the explosion occurred large number Of
miners were at work at the bottom Of the
shaft, and determined efforts were imme-
diately made to rescue them. Over one
half Of the imprisoned men leave wives
and families to mourn their untimely end.
Samuel Hudson, who formed one of the rescu-
ing party. died from the effects Of the after
damp. Five men were rescued alive, butseri-
ously injured. There were eighty-eight
whites and about 100 Cinnamon in the mine
at the time of the explosion.
Jules Michael, one Of the injured, said that
he was sitting'in his cabin at supper in No. 2
shaft. He felt the conclusion. An scrambled
out. he became insensible. Only one Of his
four companions was saved. The dead bodies
Of the others came up in the cage with him.
Several of those rescued hardly appreciate
their Their miraculous fGe wbsS ssSSape 1wRg % All
who came out from the deadly pit.
Michael was only $50 yards from the
entrance to the shaft when the explosion
occurred. He represents it as some
thing terrific. All Became darkness. John
Lynch was badly injured about the face and
hands and had his hip fractured.
A Nanaimo (B. C.l dispatch says: IAN
hope Of rescuing any one in the mines has
been long ago abandoned. 1t is thought that
all that man can do is being done to reach
them. 1t was at first thought Of cutting q
ditch to the salt water. 80 as to attempt
to put out the fire in no. shaft
by turning a stream Of water INTO
it, but the scheme was abandoned. 1t would
only flood the mine, rendering it practically
useless for a year, and would Danish any
hope there might be of saving the lives
of the men. Imagine the scene. The mines
extend out from the shore more than a
mile beneath the waters of the har-
bor, and as one looks over the placid
waters he cannot imagine that beneath
are imprisoned the fathers and sons OF more
than eighty families of this little city. Around
the shaft the scenes are narrowing in the e1-
treme. As each cage comes up, anxious faces
look there for glad tidings that never come. A
black pail hangs over the city. Business houses
are closed collieries shut up, and the entire
population is gathered at the scene OF the disas-
ter. Frantic wives, terror-strlcken children,
and sorrowing fathers hover in the vicinity
and mourn over their terrible afilctlon.
Women with babes clasped to their bosoms
walk up and down in front OF the
shaft sobbing and moaning. Swarms OF
terrified Chinese are on the grounds.
One woman laments the loss OF
her husband, father, and brother-her all.
This is one Of many cases."
Since the above dispatch was sent many
bodies have been recovered by searching par.
ties.
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rHr INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE.
ARMY OF THE POTOMAC

Elaborate Preparations for ITS Co'n'
ing Meeting at saratosa.
General NJ T. McMahon, President ana
Colonel Str,sdell, Treasurer, of tho Society Oh
the Army of the Potomac, have been at sar, ar.
atora, m N. Y, making arrangements for the
rsunion of members of that society, which
,,,;I % I>o hold lime % and %. 1t is probable
THAT THAT ts the nea coming reunion will be the most
erals Sheridan, sherman sicklss and itarv GsheF
distinguished men, besaes ststs w be in atten
dance. Mt, do,;,orod N, the
first evening by Chauncey NJ OeIew ana ie E[.e
banquet viii take place the next night: ssad tite te
hundred badges have already been Issues arts of
tRe eoentfS 0I and snd the
meeting viii be attended by fully S,0oo per-
sons
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DESTRUCTIVE FLAMES.
Two Towns in New Hampshire
Swept by Fire..
Many Buildings Destroyed and
Families Rendered Homeless.

The mcst destructive fire that northern
New Hampshire has ever known on Tuesday
swept the town Of Lebanon, place of 1000
inhabitants. All the manufacturing shops
and many dwellings were burned,
leaving. some thirty families without shell
ter. The fire was discovered in the
shops of Mead, Mason & Co., furniture man
ufacturers, and the alarm given at A. N.
Calls for help were sent to Hanover about Q
o'clock. The Hanover fire engine and hun
dred Dartmouth students Went down at once
to assist. All the manufacturing shops
of the place were - cromue5 along
the banks Of the Mascoma River, which
runs through the town. Logs, lumber and
other combustible materials were piled in
among the mills. They caught and burned
like tinder. Assistance went from White
Enfield. Eighty buildings, of which twenty
five were dwelling houses containing families,
were burned A man named Perkins was
the only one injured. He was badly scorched
but will recover. The Boston and Lowell
Railroad bridge was burned, and passengers
were transferred. Two other bridges across
the the Mascoma Mas were burned; The The zen en-
This is one-fourlh of the taxable
met with the heaviest loss, estimated at $780,
600, the greatest part of which was stock, as
far as can be ascertained covered only by
5000 insurance.
-Four hundred people are out Of employ
ment Some of the shelterless people stopped
with relatives and others were housed and
fed at the public expense in the City Hall.
The village is practically destroyed; as
there is absolutely nothing left Of
the buildings there will be little to induce
the corporations to rebuild on the old ground.
The water power is good, but the larger mills
were propelled by steam. Household goods
of every description filed the yards in the
vicinity of the fire. Over ten acres were
swept by the flames.
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A plucky woman can do almost any
thing when she sets aboutit. Mrs. Mary
L. Barr, who is making herself famous as
a writer of Scotch dialect stories, hardly
touched pen to paper up to the age Of
ffty-four. She lost her husband: who
was Military Governor of Texas, and
seven children in the space OF twess..v-four
hours from yellow fever, and found her
self left with four little ones and fifty
cents In her hands. In the course of time
she driftcd to New York and became a
goveruess in the family of one of A. T.
Stewards partners. Her first tale, which
was written at the request and to crafty
the whim of her employer, dealt with
life in the old days in Texas, and found
q publisher with ease.
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THE NATIONAL GAME,

THE Detroits won thirty-one consecutive
exhibition games.
THE New York team has the most gaudy
uniforms in the League.
FoaARTY and Mccarthy of the Philadel-
phias are fine base runners.
THE Metropolitans have been Chicagoed
three times in seven games.
THE baseball fever is raging with great
virulence throughout New England.
LITTLE Davy Force is holding his own with
the short stops Of the Southern League.
THERE are at present some 200 or 800
arrateur clubs in the field about New York.
ALL the baseball managers are pulling their
hair because it will cost just double to travel
this year.
WHEN in New York city Governor Hill
never misses a League game at the Polo
Grounds.
Or all tho League clubs, President Young
thinks the Chicagos and the Phillies play the
best uphill games.
BOYLE, of the Indianapolis team, was pre-
sented with fine hat for making the first
home run of the season for his club.
THE spring tour of the Detroit Club did not
p owe financial success, owing to the Inter-
State Commerce law and long jumps, both Of
which were costly.
A SOUTHWESTERN Baseball League has
been organized with clubs from little Rock,
Fort Smith, Springfield, No.. Webb City,
bot Springs, and Pine Bluffs.
THE twelve games played between the Phil
sdelphia and Athletic teams, for the champion
ship of Philadelphia, were attended by over
$1,000 persons The "Phillies" won six; the
Athletics five, and one was tie.
THE number of really excellent players has
10 increased and so many superfuous ones are
under engagement that managers are really
in trouble to decide whom to let 60. The
only class of players in which there is q
scarcity is pitchers The market is not likely
to be glutted in that department at least
PRESIDENT YOUNG of the National League,
predicts not only great season for the ma
tional sport, but he Is confident that the pen
nant race will be closer than for many sea-
SONS. The leading clubs are hardly as strong
as last year, and the newly admitted organi-
cations are in much better shape than Wash
ington or Kansas City last season.
OF the twenty-five leading batters in tho
League, in last years record, Detroit has six
Brothers Richardson, Thompson, Rowe,
White, and Dunlap: New York five-Connor,
ORourke, Ewing, Gore, and Dorgan; Boston
fve--Kelly, Wise, Nash, Stemmeyer, and
Sutton; Washington three-Hines, Shock,
and Meyers; Chicago two-Anson and Ryan:
indianapolis one--Glasscock; Philadelphia
one--Fogarty, and Pittsburgh one-McKin
non.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.

/ HEAVY forest fires have burned over large
tracts in the Catskills Hundreds of farmers
and Others, including 100 firemen from Cats
kill, fought the flames
THE bill providing for half holiday on
Saturdays, passed by the New York Legisla-
ture, has been signed by the Governor. 1t
takes effect Saturday, May 81.
THE corning mill of the Latin Powder
Company, near Pittston, Penn, exploded
with terrible shock. One man was killed
and two were seriously injured.
FLOODS in Maine have destroyed many
bridges and caused numerous washouts on
railroads
THE law prohibiting the sale of intoxicating
liquors on Sunday is being rigidly enforced
in New York, even hotels and restaurants
refusing to serve their guests wine or beer.
WILLIAM O'BR1EN, the Irish editor and
Home Rule leader, arrived in New York
few days since, and was received with great
cordiality by q committee ofprominent Irish
men. He Immediately went to Canada for
the purpose of speaking against the Governor
General, the Marquis Of Landsdowne, whose
tenants in Ireland are being evicted by
wholesale
PRINCE FREDERICK LEOPOLD, great-grand
nephew Of the German Emperor, has arrived
in the East from tour across the Continent
He is making trip around the world.
A NATIONAL Cattle and Dairy Show has
been one Of the attractions Of New York the
past week. More than 400 cattle, valued in
the aggregate at 81 ZOO, 900, were on exhibi'
tion, and many valuable prizes awarded.
GENERAL AARON STEVENS, Of New Hamp
shire, died at Nashua the other day, aged six
ty-eight years. He had been in Congress,
and for many years was a member Of the
State Legislature.
in Elmira, n. Y, opposed to Engiand's'
coercive measures toward Ireland.
WoRKMEN were clearing out furnace ip
the Edgar Thompson Steel Works at Brad
docks, Penn, when red hot arch Of coke,
limestone and other material fell upon their
unprotected bodies. Five men were so hor-
ribly bruised that there was no hope of their
recovery.
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A DESPERATE ARRAY.
A Prohibition Editor Shot Dead b!
Mississippi Senator.

A prohibition Editor ShOt Dead by
Mississippi Senator.
A desperate pistol fight has taken place in
Jackson, Miss, between Colonel Jones s.
Hamilton, State Senator for the past four
years, and one Of the lessees of the Penitenti-
ary, and R. D. Gambrell, editor Of
the Scord and Shield, the
State Prohibition organ. About year
ago young Gambrell, who is the son Of a
prominent Baptist minister residing in Jack
son and the editor of the State Baptist organ,
began in Jackson the publication Of the
Sword and Shield and has ever since,
in very strong language, made
war on Governor Lowery and the
State Administration and Congressman
Catchings for his action in Penitentiary mat
ters when he was Attorney General Of the
State, and has been especially bitter on Colo
mel Hamilton, criticising in unmeasured
terms his action in the State Senate and as
lessee of the Penitentiary.
On April 81 there appeared in the Clarion
a call signed over nom de plume urging that
Colonel Hamilton stand for reelection. Two
days later Gambrell's paper came out with an
article saying in substance that the people did
not want man to represent them in the
Senate who disregarded the interests of the
people and whose sole purpose in the
Senate was to look after his own corrupt Jobs
Il charged that as lessee of the Penitentiary
he was seeking to defraud the State out Of
$4,000 through loophole in his bond, and
wound up by saying that the man elected
must also have high personal character.
Since the publication Of this article trouble
has been anticipated, and it came Thursday
night. Gambrell was walking up the street.
and just as he was crossing the iron bridge
spanning Capitol street Colonel Hamilton's
carriage overlook him and shooting began. It
is claimed by Hamilton's friends that Gam
brell fired the first shot and that Colonel Ham,
ilton then jumped out Of the carriage and the
duel with pistols began on the bridge. This
theory is denied by Gambrell's friends, who
claim that Gambrell was overtaken and the
assault made on him, and that more persons
than Hamilton shot.
Gambrel was found in a pool of blood,
gasping, and soon expired. He was shot
through the knee and through the body, the
latter ball going clear through him, fractur-
ing the backbone and lodging just under the
skin of his back. The third shot went in an
inch below the left ear, and ranged upward,
but did not reach the brain. His face was
also frightfully disfgured, having been beaten
and gashed by being struck with heavy pjs-
tol
Col. Hamilton was the only person found
on the bridge when the officers arrived. He
also was frightfully wounded. His left arm
was shattered at the elbow, and be was also
shot in the stomach.
The affair caused great excitement in Jack
son. Gambrell was unmarried, and about
twenty three years old. Colonel Hamilton is
over fifty and has large family.
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Large Fire in Supcook.

The freight depot of the Concord railroad
at Suncook, N. H., caught fire the same after
noon from spark from locomotive and
was burned, together with the large
wood and coal sheds of William H. Hazeltine,
containing 300 cords of wood and fifty tons of
coal; the houses of Timothy Lynch and Miss
Sarah Appleton; the ten tenement block Of
Mrs. Grace Potter, and a four tenement block
of Clifton B. Hildreth, on the Pembroke side Of
the river. Sparks from the burning buildings
were carried by the high wind across Suncook
river and set fire to Hildreth's house, which
was destroyed. From this point the fire
spread to the houses Of Charles Emerson,
Peter Michand and Thomas Otterson, all Of
which were burned. A storehouse filed
with lumber owned by Thomas Otter
son was also burned. The steamer
Kearsage and a large detail of men from
the Concord Fire Department, arrived in
time to save several fine houses, which were
atone time seriously endangered. The
freight depot was filed with merchandise.
The total loss is estimated at from s35, 900 to
$50, 900 with an insurance of $4,000
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A wonderful surgical operation hs

A wonderful surgical operation has
been performed at the New Haven City
Hospital, it is said, with entire success,
the subject being the three-year-old son
of George W. Ficro, of Waterbury,
Conn.,, who was born with deformed
legs, which apparently destined him to
be crippled for life. But the surgeon
broke one of the legs three times, and the
other leg twice, and then Strengthened
and reset the bones. The child endured
the operation well, under ether, and
now walks long distance, nccsc, with only a
Slight limp, which will disappear in
time.
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Ostrich farming IS prospering in Cali
fornia. The feathers are equal ta the best
grown in Africa. The ostrich weighs
from 800 to 500 pounds. Every seven
months, after it is four years old, its
plumage is ready for the market, yield
ing twenty-five fine feathers, and num-
ber of less valuable ones. They are cut
off with shears. The longest and finest
white feathers sell at four dollars each.
1t requires a good deal of capital to run
an ostrich farm. An ostrich in hurry
can make forty miles an hour.
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South and West.

A LAND SLIDE near Cliff Cave Station,
Mo-, hurled freight train from the track,
burying six cars and the engine from sight.
Two men were killed.
Two murderers were hanged on Friday in
New Mexico-Henry Anderson (colored) at
Socorro, and Theodore Baker at Springer.
The Southern Baptist Convention, the
largest religious body in the South, has been
in session at Louisville.
UNITED STATES DEPUTY MARSHAL PEETE,
son of Congressman Peete of Arkansas, was
killed while attempting to make arrests
in Indian Territory.
FANNIE MURRAY, a girl of fifteen, was
about to mount horse at Stonewall, COL,
when the animal became frightened and
dragged its rider, whose foot had caught in a
stirrup, two miles across the fields. The girl
was killed.
THE West Virginia Legislature has ad-
journed sine die.
SIX prisoners in the County Jail at
Columbus, Ohio, escaped by saving of the
bars to window.
THE Ohio Democratic State Convention
will be held at Cleveland July 20 and 81.
". B. ToDHUNTER, a cattle-owner, of Sac
ramento, Cal, who owns ITO, 900 acres Of land
in Oregon and $4,000 acres in Nevada, hes
failed for S400, 900.